Spurs in the 2024/25 UEFA Europa League – new format explained and key information
Wed 02 October 2024, 14:30|
Tottenham Hotspur
This season, we are competing in the Europa League and we're playing in a new format of the competition.
For the first time since the 2020/21 campaign, we're back in the tournament which we first won in its first edition back in 1972 when it was called the UEFA Cup. We also won the competition 40 years ago this year with a penalty shootout victory over Anderlecht at White Hart Lane in May, 1984.
This season in the competition, the previous group stage, where teams were divided into groups of four, will become a single 36-team league stage.
Each club faces eight different teams once, four at home and four away. The top eight advance directly to the round of 16, while sides finishing from ninth to 24th will contest the knockout round play-offs, with the winners of all eight two-legged ties going through to the last 16.
From the last 16 onwards, the tournament then takes a straight knockout format, with two-legged ties through until a single-leg final on 21 May, 2025, at the Estadio de San Mamés in Bilbao, Spain.
By virtue of our fifth-place finish in the Premier League last season, we qualified directly for the league stage and were given the following eight ties for the League Phase in the August draw.
Matchday 1: Spurs 3-0 Qarabag - 26 September, 2024
Matchday 2: Ferencvaros vs Spurs - 3 October, 2024
Matchday 3: Spurs vs AZ Alkmaar - 24 October, 2024
Matchday 4: Galatasaray vs Spurs - 7 November, 2024
Matchday 5: Spurs vs AS Roma - 28 November, 2024
Matchday 6: Rangers vs Spurs - 12 December, 2024
Matchday 7: Hoffenheim vs Spurs - 23 January, 2025
Matchday 8: Elfsborg vs Spurs - 30 January, 2025
The draw for the knockout round play-offs, for the clubs finishing ninth to 24th, will take place on 31 January, 2025, with the two legs of those ties set to be played on 13 and 20 February, 2025.
The draw for the round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals will be held on 21 February, 2025, with match dates pencilled in as follows...
Round of 16: 6 and 13 March, 2025
Quarter-finals: 10 and 17 April, 2025
Semi-finals: 1 and 8 May, 2025
Final: 21 May, 2025
Dates are subject to change.
The 2024/25 UEFA Europa League winners, gain a place in the league stage of the 2025/26 UEFA Champions League, if they have not qualified via their domestic league.
